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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
52, 1995
Liburutegitik
· From the Basque Library
By Marcelino Ugalde
The daily operations of the Basque Studies Library
continue to grow as the library itself grows and develops.
As more and more of the monographic and serials collections
become cataloged, there are signs of larger amounts of
material being used, and with greater frequently. As one
might expect, the result of quality cataloging by the Basque
Cataloging Project has been increased accessibility and use
of the Basque collection. More specifically, since the first
year of the project, a 103% increase I circulated material
from the library was observed. Thus far in the second year,
there has been a 132% increase in circulation. Interlibrary
loan use has also made a substantial impact on the
collection, with a more than 600% increase over the past
four years. With the heightened awareness of Basque material
available in Reno, Nevada, telephone and post-reference
queries have enlarged staff workloads. Typically,
undergraduate use of the Basque Studies Library has been
insignificant due tot he amount of foreign language material
I the collection. However, over the last two years there has
been a noticeable influx of
undergraduates.
Basque Studies Program staff have continued to assist
with library matters whenever possible. Two staff members I
would like to mention are Jill Berner and Joan Brick. Jill
has been very diligent in adding new records to a new
vertical file database. It is hoped that this database will
be added as an option for searching in the online catalog.
Joan is contributing her time to tattle-taping (magnetic
tapes that are placed in each volume) the entire monographic
and serials collection.
In addition to basque studies staff, historically the
Basque Library has been fortunate to enlist the services of
fine student library assistants. This is also the case
currently. Three very knowledgeable and hard-working
students - Enrike Corcostegui, Asier Sarasua, and Julie Lacy
- each devote ten hours a week to the library. Enrike, a
native of Donosti, has worked several years in the library
and is in his last year of study in electrical engineering.
Asier, from Eibar, offered to continue working it he library
this year while completing a Ph.D. in ecology and biology.
Both gentlemen are proficient in Euskara and Spanish and are
extremely knowledgeable about Basque culture. Julie is a
graduate student in anthropology and has training in museum
work. She has provided valuable assistance with the Basque
archives.
This past summer, the Basque Libaray was selected as
the recipient of a generous gift from Ken and Betty Earle of
El Dorado Hills, California. The gift was a major part of
the private library of Mrs. Earle’s late brother,
Rodolfo Luera. The Earles were aware of Rodolfo’s
fondness for the Basque Studies Program when he was a
doctoral student here. Having known Rodolfo and his work
makes this gift especially meaningful to us, and it is
deeply appreciated.
Also, this past year Professors David Beesley and
Michael Claytor of Sierra College in Rocklin, California,
generously allowed us to make duplicates of their slides of
arborglyphs photographed in the Sierra Nevada. The slide
duplicates will be added ot the Basque Library’s
collection of tree carving information.
Several noteworthy recent additions to the Basque
Library are:
Petit Dictionnaire de Mythologies Basques et
Pyrénéenne, by Oliver de Marliave,
1993.
Zumarraga and His Family Letters to Vizcaya,
1536-1548, transcribed by Richard E. Greenleaf and
translated by Neal Kaveny, O.F.M., 1979.
Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the
Spanish Colonial Period (revised edition), by Fray
Angélico Chávez, 1992.
Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of
an American Place, by Howard Wight Marshall,
1995.
Discover the Basque Country: Labourd, Lower Navarre,
Soule, Navarre, Euzkadi, by Camille Fambon,
1993.
Leonis, or the Lion’s Brood, by Horace Bell;
edited by Gerry Keesey Hoppe, 1993.
Auto de Terminación: Raza, nación y
violencia en el País Vasco, by Juan Aranzadi, Jon
Jauristi, and Patxo Unzueta, 1994.
Basque Whaling in Labrador in the Sixteenth Century,
by Jean-Pierre Proulx, 1993.
El menú de cada día, by Karlos
Anguiñano, 1992.
Wild Game, by Frank bergon, 1995.
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